Overview
- GAFCON’s Global Primates Council says it will choose a chairman to function as a rival primus inter pares, with the result due Thursday.
- The Anglican Communion on Monday unveiled revised plans to share leadership roles beyond Canterbury, set for review by the Anglican Consultative Council this summer.
- More than 400 bishops, clergy and lay members are expected in Abuja for the four-day gathering, according to GAFCON’s general secretary.
- GAFCON leaders oppose same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly LGBTQ+ clergy, and many also reject women’s ordination.
- The coalition says it has not left the Anglican Communion and claims to represent a majority of practising Anglicans as some primates weigh Archbishop Laurent Mbanda’s call to reorder structures.